"Why are you so fat?"

Since the last audition in the dumpling restaurant, Wang Dalun hasn't seen Liu Ling for almost four months, and he was shocked when he met. Liu Ling's whole person has gained weight, especially the round face, which is like a big cake, more like Jiang Dehua.

Liu Ling glanced at him resentfully, and said, "It's not what the director asked, he asked me to gain weight, saying that Tao Lan in the play should be fatter." ”

Wang Dalun nodded, two days ago, he and Zhang Yuan had just gone to a few shooting locations that had selected good scenes. Designated women's prison. Not to mention, all the female prisoners in the prison are good-looking, and they are all fat. Liu Ling's current image is really in line with a senior female prisoner who has been in prison for 17 years.

But he still couldn't help laughing: "You're all fat like this, your old boyfriend won't dislike you, right?" ”

"Do you have any interest in mentioning this?"

Liu Ling's most annoying thing is that Wang Dalun often uses this topic to squeeze her, speaking of which this product really looks like her parents' own son, and this product has always stood on the united front with her parents on this issue.

"Smack!"

She threw a messy stack of invoices onto Wang Dalun's desk, and said with a straight face: "Sign and reimburse!" ”

In other words, Wang Dalun is now doing the work of a production director as he expected. Zhang Yuan and Marco Muller are both producers of this movie, and Marco Muller can't come over at all, mainly with Zhang Yuan. And what Zhang Yuan said about foreigner supervision before, in fact, it was not as exaggerated as he said. In the end, foreigners can't control the spending at all, they just need to make sure that the money invested is used for this film project. That is, the meaning of earmarking funds.

In a sense, Zhang Yuan is a pure artist. As soon as he arrives on the set, all his thoughts are on the movie. In this regard, he and Lao Jia belong to the same kind of person, and perhaps it is this kind of pure person who can make good movies.

In the past, Ning Dai helped him worry about other affairs of the crew, and his old friend Zhang Jian helped manage them. But this time, Ning Dai couldn't leave because the child was still young, and Zhang Jian didn't join the group for some reason. So he could only call Wang Dalun.

In his words, most of these people in the crew today are his old team, and the newly found photographer Zhang Xigui is still his classmate in college, but in terms of trust, he still trusts Wang Dalun the most. And when filming the MV last year, Wang Dalun has fully proved his ability in this regard.

In fact, there is no need for Zhang Yuan to fool, since Wang Dalun is here, he has already made mental preparations in this regard. Anyway, Zhang Yuan is not only his friend and brother, not to mention that he also has the grace of knowing him, Zhang Yuan is in trouble, and he has to help him no matter what.

If Zhang Yuan is the CEO who is responsible for pulling money and filming the whole drama, then now Wang Dalun is the CFO, mainly responsible for spending money. Every expenditure in the crew needs to be signed by him, and how much and how to spend it needs to be strictly controlled. In addition, as an assistant director, he also has to assist Zhang Yuan to ensure the filming progress and handle the relationship between actors.

This is not today, the actor joins the group, he has to be responsible for reimbursing the travel expenses or something. Looking at the messy pile of invoices and documents on the table, Wang Dalun couldn't help frowning and said: "You said, you will be reimbursed if you reimburse, but you have to sort out these invoices clearly, glue them together, and fill out a reimbursement form." You got it like that, how can I sign it? ”

"Hmph, don't you can, you have to take care of everything, anyway, I won't do what you said, you can help me get it. Okay, I won't talk to you, anyway, I gave you all the bills, and I'll ask you for money tomorrow! This Jiang Dehua directly called him as an assistant, and after speaking, he patted his ass and left.

If it were someone else, Wang Dalun would have thrown these messy documents in his face a long time ago, but who called her Liu Ling? There is no way, he can only help her sort out and glue it one by one, what taxi invoices, long-distance bus tickets, and even quilt sheets or something, all add up to hundreds.

Don't underestimate these hundreds, in the past few days of coming to the crew, he has deeply felt that it is really not easy to maintain the normal operation of a crew. The money spent every day is like running water, and this does not include the actors' salaries and film costs.

The total investment of this drama is two million, and the funds are actually on the account, but except for the film purchased in advance and some equipment, this has not been started yet, and hundreds of thousands have already gone out. Wang Dalun alone has handled almost 100,000 yuan in the past few days.

And he knows Zhang Yuan very well, although Zhang Yuan is not as freewheeling as Lao Jia, he is imaginative, and shoots wherever he wants, but this thing likes to deduct details, if he is not satisfied with a scene, he can shoot dozens or even hundreds. Don't look at the director coaxing on the scene, "stuck, one more" at every turn, but you have to know that every shot is money!

Therefore, the cost of this film and post-production, Wang Dalun estimates that it will be at least one million, except for the film that has been purchased for 200,000 yuan before shooting, and the remaining 800,000 yuan has to be kept for him anyway.

In this way, more than half of the remaining funds in the account will be removed, and there will be more than 600,000 yuan left, not only to pay the salaries of the actors and the salaries of the staff, but also to be responsible for the eating, drinking, and sleeping of the more than 60 people in the next two months.

On the first day he came to the crew, he and the accountant roughly estimated the account, and found that the money was really stretched. There is no choice but to throttle. For example, the small hotel where the crew lives at present, with forty rooms, each room is eighty-one days, and Zhang Yuan booked it himself. The daily house price alone is 3,002, a small 100,000 yuan a month, and 200,000 yuan in two months, which is about to account for one-third of the total cost.

He hated Zhang Yuan's big-hearted and unjust style. Don't look at what this kind of small hotel is listed for one hundred and fifty-eight, one hundred and twenty-eight, in fact, there is usually a 50% occupancy rate, and the boss is already secretly happy. Forty rooms account for almost 80% of all rooms, and eighty-one rooms seem to have been discounted a lot, but there is definitely room for profit.

So he personally negotiated with the boss and asked for a price reduction, in a word, the house price was reduced by another 20%, and another breakfast was included, otherwise he would move out immediately, and there was no room for bargaining. After two rounds of negotiations, the hotel owner had to compromise, and secretly ran to his room that night and stuffed a red envelope of 2,000 yuan. It is enough to show that even if it is sixty-one, the boss has a lot of money to make.

There is also eating, originally ordering a boxed lunch outside, and the food cost per person per day is almost fifteen yuan a day, and the quality of this meal is not much.

To this end, he personally visited several box restaurants, and found that basically the prices are high and high-quality, and the hygiene problems are not guaranteed. It just so happens that there is a small restaurant in the hotel, which usually makes breakfast or something, and there is no business. He discussed with his boss and provided meals to the crew at the standard of ten yuan per person per day for food.

Since the chefs and equipment are ready-made, the box lunches of more than 60 people are equivalent to a turnover of nearly 20,000 yuan per month, which can at least support the staff and equipment depreciation of the restaurant. And Wang Dalun fully learned from Rong Xinda's practice, boiling a big pot of bone broth every day, of course, there will be no three, six, nine, etc., everyone in the crew has a share, and in this cold season, it is also a happy thing to be able to drink a bowl of steaming soup.

In fact, the general crew will be divided into five groups, such as the director group, which has a director, an assistant director, an action director and a scene reporter; The photography group includes photographers, assistant photographers, photography assistants, mechanics, gaffers, and lighting assistants; The art group is divided into artists, art design, costumes, props, makeup, etc.; Recording crew, with sound recordists and recording assistants.

The rest is Wang Dalun's production team, which should have been divided into production directors, on-site producers, life producers, external producers, financial personnel, drama and logistics support personnel, etc.

At the beginning, in order to save expenses, Zhang Yuan greatly reduced the staffing of the crew, especially the production crew, Wang Dalun was also the production director, on-site producer, life producer and external producer, and under his hands were two finance, three drama affairs and two errands logistics support personnel.

Originally, the crew didn't have tea yet, and even drinking mineral water every day was a big expense. Especially in winter, and 80% of the crew are big men, he bought a thermos cup for each person from the wholesale market, labeled the name on each cup, bought more than a dozen hot water bottles, called his hometown to send more than 100 catties of tea, and specially designated a field worker to be responsible for serving tea and delivering water.

In this way, less than a week after Wang Dalun came to the crew, the living conditions of the crew went up to a higher level, and he was unanimously supported by the crew, and the key was to save money, which made Zhang Yuan feel a little relieved.

But this is just the work of life producer, as an assistant director and production director, he still has to do the work of coordination. What is co-ordination? Do you still remember Hua Luogeng's text "Overall Planning Method"? Doing your homework while boiling water is the most time-saving way to calculate it.

In fact, the coordinator of the crew is the person who assigns work to the whole crew every day. Each staff member "what time to get up, what time to sleep, what time to work, what time to feed" basically have to obey the overall arrangement.

To be honest, this job of co-ordination is really difficult to do, because you have to take into account the progress of the production crew, the fatigue of the film crew, and the temper of the actors, so that you can make a detailed plan and draw up a notice.

In short, Wang Dalun is nominally the second person in the crew, but he does the hardest work. Especially in the first week of arriving at the crew, he had to be familiar with every qiē, he had to think about it, a lot of things needed to be changed, and many of them had to be done by himself, and he was about to have a nervous breakdown. This is not over, Zhang Yuan actually asked for a cameo role in the play.

Hey, big brother, I'm your brother, I'm a person, not a special humanoid machine!